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Lorenz and Mitel ransomware

Lorenz Ransomware Penetrates Company Networks through Mitel VoIP Products

Security firm Arctic Wolf has warned that Lorenz ransomware is exploiting a critical vulnerability in Mitel MiVoice VoIP devices to…

Ransomware publishes data stolen from Cisco

The Yanluowang hack group published data stolen from Cisco back in May 2022. Cisco representatives acknowledged that the data leak…

0-day Vulnerability in WordPress BackupBuddy Plugin Attacked Over 5 million Times

Wordfence analysts have discovered that a fresh 0-day vulnerability in the popular WordPress plugin, BackupBuddy, which has been installed about…

North Korean Group Lazarus Attacks Energy Companies

A new malware campaign by the North Korean hacker group Lazarus has been discovered, which was active from February to…

MooBot Botnet Attacks D-Link Routers

Experts have discovered that the MooBot botnet, built on the Mirai IoT malware, attacks vulnerable D-Link routers using a combination…

Twitter disabled SMS

End of an era: Twitter disabled SMS in most countries

Twitter said it disabled option of using SMS with the text of new tweets last week due to security issues. The function was disabled in all countries, except for “several”…

Sindhi symbols disable iPhone

Sindhi Language Symbols Disable iPhone and iPad

Users found that a messages with certain characters in the Sindhi language symbols (used primarily in India and Pakistan) disable OS 13.4.1 and crash the iPhone and iPad. A “text…

Criminals hacked ad servers

Criminals hacked more than 60 ad servers to distribute malware

Confiant experts found that in the past nine months (since August 2019), unknown criminals have hacked more than 60 ad servers in order to inject their malicious ads onto a…

Discovered new exploit for iOS

For iOS was discovered a new exploit, with the help of which China traced the Uyghurs

Specialists of the information security company Volexity discovered a new exploit for iOS called Insomnia. According to the researchers, the malware associated with the efforts of the Chinese authorities to…

Conspiracy theorists accused Gates

Conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creating coronavirus

Microsoft founder Bill Gates fell victim of fake theories that he was allegedly involved in the creation of the coronavirus COVID-19. In fact, conspiracy theorists accused Bill Gates in creation…

GitHub warned about phishing attack

GitHub warned users about phishing attack

Representatives of the GitHub web service warned users of a massive phishing attack called Sawfish. Recently, users more and more often receive phishing emails with fake warnings about suspicious activity…

Malicious libraries in RubyGems repository

More than 700 malicious libraries detected in RubyGems repository

Information security researchers at ReversingLabs reported the discovery of 725 malicious libraries that stole the contents of the clipboard in the official RubyGems repository. RubyGems is a package manager for…

Hoaxcalls botnet attacks Grandstream

Hoaxcalls botnet attacks Grandstream devices

Palo Alto Networks experts warn that the Hoaxcalls botnet attacks the recently fixed vulnerability in the Grandstream UCM6200 series devices. The Hoaxcalls botnet is built on the source code of…

Chrome re-enabled FTP support

Due to the pandemic Google developers re-enabled FTP support for Chrome

Most recently, I wrote that Firefox developers plan to remove from their browser support for the FTP protocol, as consider it to be unsafe. At the same time, Google re-enabled…

around the world there are changes in the Internet traffic trends. In particular, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, raised interest in pirated sites

COVID-19 pandemic raised interest in pirated sites

Currently, hundreds of millions of people remain at home and occur global changes in the Internet traffic trends. In particular, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, raised interest in pirated sites.…

Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com

Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com, so criminals would not do it

The well-known IS journalist Brian Krebs drew attention to an interesting fact: this week Microsoft bought the domain Corp.com, so that criminals would not do it. The sum of transaction…

NASA staff hacker attacks

NASA staff faces exponential increase in number of hacker attacks

Representatives of the space agency said that recently NASA staff and home-based agency contractors suffered from increase in the number of hacker attacks, and their devices are constantly trying to…